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So over all the book S TEAL LIKE AN ARTIST  is a must read for any artist and  entrepreneur. Austin Kleon gives great advice, I've learned a lot from the artist and some I took to heart, We all can learn something from him. In this book they examine EMINEM  who has become one of the most successful and well-known artists in the world. They  Providie far more than a biography of his life story, the book provides a comprehensive description, interpretation, and analysis of his personas, his lyrical content, and the cultural and economic impact in the hip–hop culture. An example would be that they explain his three personalities known as Eminem, Marshall Mathers, and Slim Shady. They describe how each personality is represented in his songs.

On chapter 10 of  Steal like an artist,  Austin Kleon states that we should choose what to leave out, to put limitations on personal work of regardless of what it is. Constraints help us because we get a lack of resources, and that helps us by figuring out what we can do, we adapt. It's sort of like the quote from Bruce Lee  " I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times. " We are just perfecting ourselves and adapting to problems by having limitations. I originally painted the spider–man below with watercolor paint. Now i want to do a Stencil graffiti style canvas, so im allowing my self to only use 4–5 layer stencil. With limited colors since there is not a lot of mixing in spray paint. so here is what i got so far. It took me a while to re-draw it in another larger paper, and from there i had to trace it, but what takes the most time is cutting the cardboard. 

On chapter 8 of  Steal like an artist,  Austin Kleon states that we should live our ordinary and boring life, that going out, hooking up and getting high is over rated. He also states that we should learn about how to hold and save money, and to have a day job in order to make a little money. Also to mark things out in life for example get a calendar for future events and a logbook to keep us on track on what we worked on. And lastly he says that we should marry carefully, to find someone who is willing to put up with us and hold us down. Like i said before Kleon said that we should have a routine. My routine consist of going to school and work on school work before i head to work. I usually head to work after school, but after work I tend to go to the gym for 2 hours. afterwards I go home sleep, but on my days off is where i try to do some art or my hobbies that i have. I tend to use the calendar on my phone to stay on top of thinks like appointments, events and projects. ...

On chapter 8 of Steal like an artist, Austin Kleon states that we should make friends and ignore the enemies, to keep our heads up and ignore the haters. That we should write fan letters to our heroes even if they don't reply, and to always keep the compliment of the people if we get e–mails from them, and deleting the nasty ones. On page 102, the author suggests that we follow people who are way smarter than us. Ironically I been doing that for the past couple of years. I have 2 friends who I consider successful hustlers; they both own business and seem to be doing great. One of them is Jilani, he owns a used car dealer ship and also owns a couple of houses that he uses to rent out. His favorite phrase is "  scared money makes no money." My other friend owns a video game store named WE PLAY GAMES , his name is Victor and he always tells me to never burn bridges even if we don't like them, because we never know when we might need their connections. This examples don...